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Really?

Really I want to talk

I don’t knohat he wants to talk about butwhen I arrive at the Art Institute of Chicago to findby the entrance He asks me what I want to see and we head in the direction of The New Contemporary exhibit

I’ve enjoyed contemporary art ever since the tie collection for his new apartht h on the block, but we lingered in Manhattan for a few days, and I ended up falling in love with the contemporary art auctionwhere no one has trekked before I wonder e look back on our generation, ill see Not just technology

We head into the spacious gallery It’s peppered withthe viewers the perfect space to contemplate one artwork at a ti eye contact "Good"

"You’re with Henry Lincoln, right?"

I stare at a painting I refuse to think of hi sex

"Carmichael told me he’d check in on you this week"

I scowl "I don’t want him to, remember? I don’t want special treatod

I stare at a Warhol work--a self-portrait

We start discussing soreeing and I’m frustrated that I don’t even seem to have any personal input to offer

"Livvy," he finally says, drawing me over to a nearby bench

"Yeah?"

I can’t breathe Guilt does that Everything see you did that you never, ever should have

"I’ister his words, and then they hit me like a truck at full speed "What? Tahoe!"

"Keep it down" He’s grinning ear to ear--the fool--as he draws allery And when I cannot talk, when I cannot say a thing, he says, "You’re going to cry, aren’t you?"

"No"

"You sound like it"

"Well I’ to cry, but I’?"

He opens a velvet pouch and lets the ring slip into my palm I just blink He lifts it and shows it to e, brilliant round dia, classic and timeless, the quality better than I’ve ever seen in ht"